Economy Advocates Victors Navy Measure in House
The House approved a $3.469 billion Navy appropriations bill marking a victory for economy advocates and clearing the way for the 1948 agriculture department funding bill. The measure was cut 11 percent below Truman’s budget with little opposition after a brief three day debate, while a clash over the farm program funds looms for the upcoming agriculture bill. Rep. Dirksen said changes to the subcommittee’s recommendations were minor, though talks of reversing large farm cuts persist.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Department
Truman
Nations
Rep
Dirksen
R-Il
Death penalty not asked in South Carolina case
A Greenville jury was summoned to decide the mass lynching case of 28 defendants led by Judge J. Robert Martin Jr. The state sought convictions for murder and conspiracy but did not seek the death penalty, though a murder verdict without mercy could yield a mandatory death sentence. The case stems from the Willie Earle lynching in Pickens county after an alleged taxi-driver stabbing.
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Greenville
S. C
South Carolina
J. Robert Martin, Jr
Martin
Willie Earle
Pickens County
Pan American Grace Flight Seeks New DC-6 Record
A Pan American Grace four engine DC-6 took off from Douglas Field at 6 05 a m Pacific time aiming for a new Miami record. Capt Frank Havelick commanded with co pilot E Hummel and four passengers aboard.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Pan-American Grace Airways
P.S.T
Miami
Fla
Douglas Field
Frank Havelick
Pan-American Grace
E. Hummel
Kurdish Tribesmen May Go On War Path
Tehran May 21 Kurdish riflemen estimated at 20 000 organized defenses in their home villages after Iran ordered disarmament. Army garrisons at Maku Shahpur Khoi and Rizaiyeh reinforced as observers warn of uprising. Women and children reportedly evacuated from affected villages.
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Teheran
Maku
Shahpur
Khoi
Rizaiyeh
Iran
Weather in North Carolina Cool, Showers and Thunderstorms Expected
considerable cloudiness and not very warm with showers and thunderstorms today and tonight in the east, cooler tonight in the west. Thursday partly cloudy and mild with scattered showers in the extreme east Thursday morning. Sun calendar notes May 22 1947 with sunrise and sunset times.
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North Carolina
Slap In The Face At Ritz Café Sparks Assault Charge
Diana Guance a 30 year old former waitress in Jackson Mississippi faces assault charges after she admitted slapping a pie into Ritz café operator Chris Costas in a Monday incident. She says the act was soul satisfying and the trial is scheduled for Friday.
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Jackson, Miss
Diana Guance
Miss Guance
Chris Costas
Ritz
Showdown Near On Army Navy Merger Plan
The Senate Armed Services Committee nears a showdown over a single cabinet officer to oversee land sea and air forces as part of President Truman’s army-navy unification plan. House Expenditures Committee delays the issue to hear two other reorganization plans. Hoffman says Truman blocks unification and a bill must emerge before July 1. Maybank says the key is whether a national defense super secretary will exist.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Truman
Capitol
House Expenditures Committee
Hoffman
Senate Committee
Maybank
D-Sc
Nominated to FCC and SEC by President Truman
President Truman nominated Ray C. Wakefield of California for a seven year term on the Federal Communications Commission starting July 1. The same message to the Senate included Edmond M. Hanrahan of Brightwaters NY for reappointment to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a term expiring June 5, 1952.
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FCC
Washington
Ray C. Wakefield
California
Truman
Federal Communications Commission
Senate
Edmond M. Hanrahan
Brightwaters
N. Y
Securities and Exchange Commission
Death in Death Cell Ends Weisberg Executions
Julius Dolly Weisberg, once a convicted killer and former homicide fugitive, died in his Chicago death cell yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, after losing all court appeals to halt his planned electric chair execution set for early Friday morning.
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Chicago
Julius Dolly Weisberg
Hecduo
Reds to renew demand on outlawing atomic weapons
Lake Success New York May 21 Russia expected to renew its demand that the United Nations Security Council outlaw the use of atomic weapons. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko told the American Russian Institute in New York that after outlawing atomic weapons the Soviet Union would accept international control and inspection. The United States and Great Britain want a system of international atomic control as a condition for prohibition. AEC committee met behind closed doors to reconcile American and Russian views, with the U.S. aiming to pressure the Russians on unresolved control and inspection points.
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The
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Gromyko
Manufacturers Receive Blame
ASBURY PARK N J May 21 Leon H Keyserling vice chairman of the presidents council of economic advisers says liberties more vital than stability may be lost under price regulation He blamed high prices on manufacturers fortifying against a possible recession urging private industry to solve the problem without government control
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Asbury Park
N. J
Leon H. Keyserling
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
New Jersey League of Women Voters
Keyserling
Two Boys Indicted For Farmer's Murder
Two Mooresville boys aged 12 and 13 were indicted by an Iredell county grand jury for murder. George Phifer and Ernest Mitchell are charged with shooting 57 year old Bob Lipe on February 24. Police say the boys intended to hit him in the foot after a moving picture they watched.
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Stateville
Mooresville
Iredell County
George Phifer
Ernest Mitchell
Bob Lipe
Bachelor Farmer
Phifer
John L. Lewis Opens Secret Talks With Mine Owners
Washington May 21 John L. Lewis and mine owners enter secret bargaining for a new contract to extend coal mining past June 30 Ezra Van Horn chairman of the negotiating conference declined to reveal progress and said talks would resume at 1 30 p m EST Both sides adhere to a blackout on what happens behind the blue glass doors of the hotel suite.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Ezra van Horn
UMW
van Horn
Sporters
Woman and Child Die in Gastonia House Fire
Mrs. Janie Moody, 30, a textile worker, died in a home fire with her three year old son Jimmy burning to death in her arms. Her other son Alonzo, 10, was rescued by neighbor Mrs. Oscar Roland. Alonzo hospitalized but not believed to be seriously injured. Fire officials say the blaze likely started from an exploding oil lamp.
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Gastonia
Janie Moody
Jimmy
Alonzo
Oscar Roland
Airmen Parachute From Plane Before B 29 Crash
Twenty Army Airmen parachuted from a burning B 29 before it crashed near Merkel Texas 16 miles west of Abilene. Thirteen were injured on impact while Roswell New Mexico base said 18 fliers accounted for. Four suffered broken bones and nine were less seriously hurt in the darkness.
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Abilene
Texas
Merkel
Tex
Here
Roswell
N. M
Seven Soldiers Die When Plane Crashes In Illinois
Seven soldiers were killed when an army B 25 crashed on a Champaign area farm during a violent electrical storm. The wreckage stretched across a wide field about 16 miles north of Champaign, with parts scattered far from the main debris. The plane was en route from Cheyenne to Chanute Field near Champaign.
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Champaign
Iboy
Cheyenne
Wyo
Chanute Field
Iowa
Borman
Ekke Flesner
Flesner
AT&T Urges Elimination of Communications Excise Tax
Washington May 21 The Senate moves toward a $4 billion income tax cut as AT and T and affiliates urge repeal of the communications excise tax. They argue the levy on telephone and telegraph services is a necessary business cost and should be part of the 1948 tax revision target.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AT. T.’s
Associated Companies
United States Independent Telephone Association
Knutson
Rminn
Chinese Reds Surround Changchun City Amid Siege
Report from Nanking says Changchun the capital of Manchuria is encircled by Chinese communist forces with fighting in the streets. Nationalist dispatches credit government troops with reentry to Kunchuling and preparations for defense in the city. Total communist strength cited as about 90 000 including 20 000 Korean communists.
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Nanking
Changchun
Manchuria
Kunchuling
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hollington Tong
Strikers Lose Any Pay Due
Comptroller general Lindsay C. Warren ruled that workers who strike for the government forfeit not only their jobs but their pay for work performed prior to the walkout. The decision covered three union carpenters at the Veterans Administration remodeling project in Waco Texas. Warren notified VA chief Gen. Omar Bradley that payroll removal and denial of pre strike salary checks were proper.
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Washington
Lindsay C. Warren
Veterans Administration
Waco
Texas
Warren
Omar Bradley
Brooklyn Mother Killed. Woman Confesses Moments Later
A 31 year old mother of two was shot to death on a Brooklyn street. An hour later the shooter, identified as Mrs Philomina Scavone, confessed stating the victim was involved with her husband. Police said the victim sought a divorce from her husband.
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New York
Brooklyn
William T. Whalen
Margaret Tannazzo
Whalen
Philomina Scavone
British Laborites Seek Probe of US Greece Turkey Aid
Five constituency labor party organizations in London urged the annual conference to condemn United States aid to Greece and Turkey as a threat to world peace. They asked for a UN charter compliance inquiry but the resolution must pass the standing orders committee and needs broader support to reach the floor at next week’s five day conference.
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London
United States
Greece
Turkey
Minister urges national go without potatoes week
The Rev. Chester A. Sillars of the Church of Christ decries tossing potatoes while millions starve. He proposes a national go without potatoes week between June 1 and 8, aligning with many Protestant churches’ children’s day observances.
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Danbury
Conn
Chester A. Sillars
Church of Christ, Disciples
Radioactive Cloud Threat Prompts Underground Shelter Research
The Armored Cavalry Journal reports a planned response to a radioactive cloud weapon. Army and Navy experiments disclosed to a congressional committee show airborne radioactive matter could threaten large areas from aircraft. Officials note inhalation risks surpass surface contamination and armor gaps may allow seepage.
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Washington
Armored Cavalry Journal
Glenn L. Martin
Army
Navy
Martin
Congressional
President Truman visits gravely ill mother at Grandview
President Truman said his 94 year old mother Martha E. Truman was holding her own at home in Grandview Missouri as he prepared to stay by her side. He noted she had a light breakfast and remained very weak while expressing cautious optimism. He spoke with reporters at 7 30 am Kansas City time during his trip from a Kansas City hotel to his mother’s home.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Missouri
Eben Ayers
Kansas City
Grandview, Mo
Martha E. Truman
Hope Springs
Grandview
Missour Bottomland Farm
Loss of Philippine presidential plane Lily Marlene
President Roxas announced the loss of the Lily Marlene in northern Cotabato Mindanao. The four engine C 54 aircraft previously owned by Lord Louis Mountbatten was carrying 12 to 15 government officials. It departed Buayas airfield Cotabato for Bacolod at 9 a m Sunday and has not been heard from since. Passengers listed include Judge Francis co Zulueta Rafael Alman Col Edwin Andrews chief of the Philippine army airforce and Dr Alfredo Parades.
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Manila
Roxas
Lily Marlene
Cotabato
Minadanao
Louis Mountbatten
Buayas
Bacolod
Negros Island
3800 Foremen Strike Hits Detroit Ford Plants
About 3,800 FAA ind foremen walk off the job at Ford Motor and Lincoln plants in the Detroit area starting at 10 am. The Highland Park unit was not immediately reported affected. FAA said strike won unanimous FAA Ford chapter approval and warns production could halt within 10 days.
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Detroit
Ford Motor
Lincoln
Highland Park
Foreman’s Association of America
Ind
Robert H. Keys
Ford
FAA
Phone Strike Nears End With Western Electric Settlement
The Western Electric installation strike winds toward resolution as 20 000 workers return to work after government mediation. Only two disputes remain in Point Breeze Maryland and Lincoln Nebraska with idle workers shrinking from 340 000. NFTW says the strike was not a union victory while CIO peaks in other industries gain 15 cent hourly hikes.
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Washington
Western Electric
Western Electric Company
Point Breeze
Lincoln
Neb
New York City
Bell System
National Federation of Telephone Workers
NFTW
CIO
Engineers Seek Fund For State Flood Projects
Army engineers seek about 5 million dollars for flood control and rivers and harbors projects in North Carolina for the year starting July 1. They will request 4.8 million for the Buggs Island power and flood control project in the Roanoke river basin, mainly affecting North Carolina. An additional 133 thousand is asked for planning projects in North Carolina, including 75 thousand for Wilkesboro flood control on the Yadkin, 50 thousand for the Philpott reservoir, and 8 thousand to plan Neuse river flood control near Goldsboro.
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Washington
Army Engineers
North Carlina
House Appropriations Committee
Buggs Island
Roanoke River
Virginia
North Carolina
E Engineers
Wilkesboro
Yadkin River
Philpott
Neuse River
Goldsboro
Rent Increase On Projects Opposed
Rep Rivers introduces a resolution to prohibit rent increases in federally owned housing projects. He criticizes government policy for blocking private owners from raising rents while acting against federally owned housing programs.
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Rivers
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